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Since 2012, Victorian councils have purchased hundreds of thousands of LED street lights through the MAV's standing panel of approved street lights. Leveraging the combined purchasing power of councils has resulted in economies of scale and seen councils saved up to 45% in capital costs of street lights and months of procurement headaches. Given the success of the initial standing panel, in early 2016 the tender was refreshed and the updated pricing table is now available to all Victorian...

Monday 7th March 2016 marked a special milestone for councils around Australia, with the 300,000th energy efficient street light installed. This has been a remarkable achievement, especially considering that only five years ago the number was a fraction of this. Perhaps the most remarkable – and telling – part is precisely where light number 300,000 was installed. Can you guess?

In July 2015, Ironbark Sustainability was engaged by Victorian councils to submit a response to the Electricity Distribution Price Review (EDPR) on behalf of the Local Government sector. Fast-forward a few months and the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) has just passed down its preliminary determination on electricity prices and the results are quite staggering. A review of the five separate determinations indicate a total minimum streetlight OMR saving across the state of around $22 million...

The who’s who of lighting gathered again for the third Annual Australian Smart Lighting Summit 2015 on 8th and 9th September 2015 in Melbourne. As always, the line-up was strong with representatives from lighting suppliers, manufacturers, roads authorities, councils, state government and distribution businesses. There were presentations on the latest in smart technology; a fascinating panel discussion featuring councils and distribution businesses; a word of warning from Tassie; and council...

The who’s who of lighting will gather again for the third Annual Australian Smart Lighting Summit 2015 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre on 8th and 9th September 2015. As always, the line-up is strong with representatives from lighting suppliers, manufacturers, roads authorities, councils, state government and distribution businesses. This year’s speakers include Victorian Minister for Energy and Resources, The Hon. Lily D’Ambrosio, City of Melbourne’s Ian Dryden, Ironbark’s Paul...

For the 2016-2020 period the AER has proposed to change the structure of street lighting regulation in Victoria. In the past, lighting maintenance costs on electricity distribution poles and lighting on dedicated street light poles were all regulated by the AER. From January 2016, it has been proposed that only those street lights on electricity distribution poles will automatically be regulated, as per the regime we’ve known up to now. Street lights on dedicated poles (largely in newer estates...

2014 has finished on a high with councils around Australia following best-practice energy efficiency project examples and installing more LEDs and other energy efficient street lights than ever before. Over the last 6 months alone Ironbark has been project managing dozens of street lighting installations throughout Victoria and has also been engaged by councils and local government bodies in New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia and Queensland to provide advice and...

The rollout of the regional Watts Working Better project has seen the Shire of Campaspe in northern Victoria change over 1,833 old mercury vapour lights to energy efficient alternatives. The changeover will result in a large reduction of greenhouse emissions and savings of $2.2 million over 20 years for the northern Victorian shire, which is situated on the Murray River border with NSW. Another council, another 1,833 lights!

Throughout Australia there is somewhat of an energy efficiency revolution occurring with local governments installing energy efficient street lighting such as LEDs to replace old inefficient and expensive technology. Lights are now being changed over in their hundreds of thousands and in this special council webinar we’ll look at how the barriers have fallen and what you need to do to get street lighting projects delivered. We’ll be hearing from council staff who have delivered and completed...

Throughout Australia there is somewhat of an energy efficiency revolution occurring with local governments installing energy efficient street lights in their hundreds of thousands. To celebrate this achievement and to congratulate the hard work of local government officers, managers, elected members and local government associations, Ironbark Sustainability has launched the Energy Efficient Street Lighting Counter, an online counter that tracks the number of energy efficient street lights that...